[ Act No. 824, August 04, 1903 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE EXPENDED BY ORDER OF THE EXPOSITION BOARD IN CONTINUING AND COMPLETING THE PREPARATION OF THE EXHIBIT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the additional united sum of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, to be expended by order of the Exposition Board in the preparation and maintenance of the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis, United States of America, for the purposes and under the restrictions set forth in Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen as amended by Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-five.
Section 2. The purchase of a carriage and two horses for the use of the Exposition Board, at a cost of not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars, local currency, authorized by resolution of the Philippine Commission under date of January fifth, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby made a proper charge against the general appropriations for the said Exposition Board in the manner indicated in said resolution, the provisions of section one of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-eight to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section 3. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, arc hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act.1aшphi1
Section 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 4, 1903.
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